How To Succeed Quotes

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

If at first you don't succeed...run.

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are. We're all certainly responsible for what we do, but failing doesn't make us bad people and succeeding doesn't make us omniscient.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.

When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it.

There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.